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"Mark my words. It will not be six months before the world tests Barack Obama like they did John Kennedy. The world is looking. We're about to elect a brilliant 47-year-old senator president of the United States of America. Remember I said it standing here if you don't remember anything else I said. Watch, we're gonna have an international crisis, a generated crisis, to test the mettle of this guy. I can give you at least four or five scenarios from where it might originate. And he's gonna need help. And the kind of help he's gonna need is, he's gonna need you - not financially to help him - we're gonna need you to use your influence, your influence within the community, to stand with him. Because it's not gonna be apparent initially, it's not gonna be apparent that we're right. Gird your loins. We're gonna win with your help, God willing, we're gonna win, but this is not gonna be an easy ride. This president, the next president, is gonna be left with the most significant task. It's like cleaning the Augean stables, man. This is more than just, this is more than – think about it, literally, think about it – this is more than just a capital crisis, this is more than just markets. This is a systemic problem we have with this economy. I've forgotten more about foreign policy than most of my colleagues know, so I'm not being falsely humble with you. I think I can be value added, but this guy has it. This guy has it. But he's gonna need your help. Because I promise you, you all are gonna be sitting here a year from now going, 'Oh my God, why are they there in the polls? Why is the polling so down? Why is this thing so tough?' We're gonna have to make some incredibly tough decisions in the first two years. So I'm asking you now, I'm asking you now, be prepared to stick with us. Remember the faith you had at this point because you're going to have to reinforce us. There are gonna be a lot of you who want to go, 'Whoa, wait a minute, yo, whoa, whoa, I don't know about that decision'. Because if you think the decision is sound when they're made, which I believe you will when they're made, they're not likely to be as popular as they are sound. Because if they're popular, they're probably not sound. You literally can see what these kids are up against, our kids in that region. The place is crawling with al Qaeda. And it's real. We do not have the military capacity, nor have we ever, quite frankly, in the last 20 years, to dictate outcomes. It's so much more important than that. It's so much more complicated than that. And Barack gets it. I probably shouldn't have said all this because it dawned on me that the press is here. All kidding aside, these guys have left us in a God-awful place. We have the ability to straighten it out. It's gonna take a little bit of time, so I ask you to stay with us. Stay with us."

Dowd is assuming she knows Obama's story line. I think his story line is not the traditional one of elections and party spoils and popularity. He is transforming the country by installing apparatchiks and regulations that will change the way America works for generations, long after he decamps to Hyde Park and the globe. He is succeeding in his own story line; has succeeded.

No, the story line is that he is a Non Allegiant, Non Natural Born Citizen (born a British subject due to Obama Sr's Kenyan citizenship)installed by NWO Socialists and Bankers. His job is to put the final touches on the destruction of the Constitution and US Citizen sovereignty.

You Republicans are so funny. You scream and yell about private enterprise, and how the marketplace will regulate itself, and should be kept free from all government interference.

Regulations can be a good thing but there is such a thing as over-regulation. The key is finding a happy medium between common sense regulation and complete statism.Problem with liberals is finding one who has common sense.

“As I heard it, my chances of surviving the surgery were certainly better than fifty-fifty,” he wrote. “But the chances of waking up with serious deficits to my mental faculties were more significant.”

Ricardo, clearly unhinged, says: "A bunch of stuff he clearly didn't think about before he posted."

Remember that Obama said the Oil spill was the Federal gubmint's problem from day one? (You know, Obama...the President...Democrat guy.) Right after he thought the top kill worked? Then when it became apparent that it didn't, he went right back to pointing fingers at BP? Or maybe you just haven't been paying attention.

Terrorist incident? Wow.

BP should be nationalized and then allowed to fail? Clearly someone hasn't been paying attention to the nationalization of large corporations of late.

Enron? Do we want to start looking at who all was involved with that? Wanna play "Where are they now?"

Is this the newest genre of political opinion columns? I would call it the "What If" genre and it is used to discuss and analyze why and how the Obama admin failed.

What if the Obama presidency had not been doomed by Bush? What if the laws of economics could be repealed? What if Obama had not been outshouted by asmall number of knuckle-dragging small govt loving neanderthals? What if the American people had been smarter? What if Obama's brilliant team of Rivals had truly been brilliant?

BP's PACs gave Obama nearly $1 million in campaign contributions. I wonder if they're getting their money's worth?

Obama's passivity makes him a lot like Bashar al-Assad. The political machine installed him, but he doesn't have a vision, so he's enjoying the perks and doing as little as he can get away with. (Barry O. has played more golf in his first year than Bush 43 played in eight.)

While documenting his Job like tribulations, Dowd takes notice of the fact that one of the SUV's in his motorcade blew a tire. A tad grandiose that. Flat tires are not afflictions of Biblical proportions.....Nature and circumstances were supposed to conspire to augment this man's grandeur. It is a horrible injustice to impose a flat tire on this man. This man should be occupied with the business of remaking America in his image--moderate, post-racial, transcendent of all the dark forces of history. It is not the destiny of Obama to fret about oil spills and flat tires. He has a larger purpose. If we let the oil spill subvert him from his grand goals, that will be the greater tragedy.

Triangle Man: I don't have time to prove the sun rises in the east with a link, but its more than evident that regulations, not geology, are the reasons so much deepwater drilling is done instead of in places where the costs and risks are lower.

And we know who that will be. The public pays for everything, but the political and chattering classes are always telling us that someone else will under a policy, regulation or tax.

All costs are passed on, except people at the bottom of the pyramid have no one to pass it on to. This is always the case for all costs in all things. This is why small government benefits those at the bottom most, while empowering everyone but the politician.

The costs to BP will be paid by their customers and stockholders who will pass that cost through less hiring and purchasing which spreads it all around to the rest of us. This happens no matter what is done by government. Costs to the government are likewise passed on. Arguing about who will pay for this is just theater.

Likewise, prosperity and growth is passed on. Whenever we think we are punishing someone we are shooting ourselves in the foot, and when we think we are working hard to make ourselves rich, we are helping our neighbors, coworkers, everyone.

Bag has it on the money. Simply put, MoDo is complaining that The Zero is voting present.

It took her this long to figure it out?

PS The marketplace usually cleans up its own mess. When the Feds stick their nose in the marketplace (subprime mortgages, drilling rules to please the enviro-nuts, etc.), that's when you have the truly sterling messes.

Lost in the finger-pointing is the reality that, if this had happened closer inland, it would have been capped and cleaned up by now.

Meh, MoDo has never really liked Obama. Besides, she's a hacktastic fool, a terrible writer and an ugly person masquerading in the spent body of a woman whose face may once have been beautiful. She may be the least effective writer for any major publication today.

However, I did find Stewart's piece pretty funny. He, unlike MoDo, is probably the best at what he does today. Way better than that fatuous gasbag Maher and that other guy, Colbert, whose schtick has just gotten way old, way fast.

If anyone has a link that proves Triangle Man wrong, I would like to see it. Because I can't find one.

"Mr. Leuffer, the Bear, Stearns analyst, said the Mars project would bring twice the oil for about the same investment, making it a very attractive venture for Shell. He added that it could encourage other companies, notably Amoco, which have found oil in deep water in the gulf, to begin to extract it. And Mr. Leuffer said that British Petroleum, which has a 28.5 percent interest in the Shell project, would benefit, too." - The Deepest Dive Yet For Gulf of Mexico Oil, 1993

I was thinking about that too. Maybe there are enough on the far left and far right in the House to form a coalition to do this.

This won't happen, though.

(a) Barry O. is a big fat Election Day gift to the Republicans. No way would they ever consider taking him out of office, at least before November. (b) The Senate would never convict him. It's the world's most exclusive men's club, and he's one of them.

Mick said..."No, the story line is that he is a Non Allegiant, Non Natural Born Citizen (born a British subject due to Obama Sr's Kenyan citizenship)installed by NWO Socialists and Bankers. His job is to put the final touches on the destruction of the Constitution and US Citizen sovereignty."

I must say Ann, the quality of posters this blog has attracted over the past few years has certainly gone downhill.

Well they aren't your words and it is always good to know where you get your words don't you think?

I'll see if I can find some words on the prior president "Mark my words, in 6 months the world will test this cypher and he will be reading a kids book to some third graders and not grasp what just happened to the nation because he is still trying to figure out the plot of My Pet Goat."